A legal easement is best described as?

• A. A right over land that benefits the servient tenement.
• B. A right over land that benefits the dominant tenement.
• C. A monetary charge against land.
• D. A personal obligation of the owner of the land.

Answer: (B)

An easement is a property right by one landowner to use another person’s land for a specific purpose, and it benefits the owner of the land that has the right—the dominant tenement. This right runs with the land, binding future owners of both the dominant and servient parcels, and it does not transfer ownership of the land itself. It is not a monetary charge against land, nor a personal obligation of the landowner. So the correct description is that it is a right over land that benefits the dominant tenement.